Derivatives

quasi-contractual

The court will assess what the employee's labours are reasonably worth by way of a quasi-contractual action for quantum meruit.

From a practical point of view, the cause of action in conversion is to be preferred to the quasi-contractual action based on waiver of tort.

The time is not ripe for approximating or unifying the national laws relating to the whole field of contractual and quasi-contractual obligations or even to the limited sphere of the sale of goods and provision of services.